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Why Women Are Better Language Learners
This – on International Women’s Day – will answer all your questions. Or give you new ones. Which, you know, is almost as good. Foreign language learners: why are men better at it than
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Made, Not Born: the Anatomy of Talent
A few days ago I took apart some of the thinking behind excuse making. Later, as I was thinking about my pet peeve – the “no talent for learning languages” excuse – I
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Polyglot’s Nemesis: The Anatomy of an Excuse
“Stop making excuses and get to work.” “That’s just a bad excuse and you know it.” Well, do you? How much do you really know about your excuses? Do they really matter to your
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Six Ways Language Learning Can Make You Happier
(photo credit) Len Matthews via Compfight It goes without saying that learning a foreign language can make you smarter, more successful and outspoken (see how it can help business owners). But happier? Now, that’s
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Rethink your language learning with two simple questions
This post is inspired by Adrian Underhill and his talk from last week’s OXDOSA conference. If you want to get to the source, visit one of Adrian’s blogs here. Thanks for reading! If you’re
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Fake It Just To Make It: 4 Ways to Pretend to Speak Any Language
Okay, this post will not teach you how to fake any foreign language. But by posing the challenge itself – by asking “what would it take to pretend you can speak a foreign tongue?”
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